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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2016, 6:06 PM MDT for Bennett County, Jackson County, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2016, 6:06 PM MDT (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2016, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bennett County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 12:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 105 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2044 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 13, 2:21 PM MDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:21 PM MDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion For Western SD and Northeastern WY National Weather Service Rapid City SD 221 PM MDT MON JUN 13 2016 .SHORT TERM...(This Evening Through Tuesday Night) Issued at 218 PM MDT Mon Jun 13 2016 20z surface analysis had elongated low pressure from eastern MT into southeast WY. Dew points around 60F have pooled ahead of boundary. 18z KUNR sounding showed about 1500J/kg MLCAPE with little MLCIN. 80kt jet streak zooming into eastern WY/MT per water vapour. Convection fired early as expected over WY and is now heading and develop to the east and north. 0-1km shear not that great and storms appear to be clustering versus distinct at this point, limiting supercell and tornado potential. 0-6km bulk shear increases to 20-25m/s through this evening as jet streak translates east and southeast boundary layer flow increases. Severe threat will continue through this evening. As storms move east and large scale synoptic ascent increases tonight, expect a fairly large blob of precipitation to move across the CWA as 700-500mb low closes off in WY and moves into ND Tuesday. Low level moisture convergence may be sufficient to support locally heavy rain across southern SD tonight. Activity will continue to lift northeast Tuesday. Temperatures will be near guidance through the period. .LONG TERM...(Wednesday Through Monday) Issued at 218 PM MDT Mon Jun 13 2016 Upper trough across southwest Canada into the northwest CONUS will deepen for the second half of the week which will allow a strong upper level ridge to develop over the central CONUS. CWA will tend to be just on the back side of the ridge with potentially active southwest flow close by, which suggests small chances for TSRA warranted. For next weekend, guidance is in pretty good agreement with ridge flattening some across the northern tier states resulting a gradual increase in southwest and then westerly flow aloft. Continued impulses expected to support small pops for TSRA at times. Temperatures will ramp up significantly for the second half of the week and then taper off some for the weekend into early next week. && .AVIATION...(For the 18Z TAFS Through 18Z Tuesday) Issued At 1132 AM MDT Mon Jun 13 2016 Mainly VFR cigs/vis across the CWA with the exception of portions of Western SD and the Black Hills where MVFR cigs persist. Daytime heating should increase cloud bases to VFR this afternoon. Storms will move from Wyoming into western SD by late afternoon. Some of the stronger storms could create MVFR/IFR cigs/vis for a period of time. Activity should push east of CWA after 09z. && .FIRE WEATHER... Issued At 218 PM MDT Mon Jun 13 2016 Amplifying upper/thermal ridge for Wednesday through Friday will support very warm to hot temperatures as well as increased chances for significant mixing and very low relative humidities across the western half of the CWA. Minimum relative humidities in the teens look probable during peak heating. && .UNR Watches/Warnings/Advisories... SD...None. WY...None. && SHORT TERM...Helgeson LONG TERM...Helgeson AVIATION...McKemy FIRE WEATHER...Helgeson
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 11:12 AM MDT, 6 hours 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 1112 AM MDT MON JUN 13 2016 SDZ001-012-024>031-041-042-044-072>074-WYZ054>058-071-141300- HARDING-BUTTE-NORTHERN BLACK HILLS-NORTHERN FOOT HILLS-RAPID CITY- SOUTHERN FOOT HILLS-CENTRAL BLACK HILLS-SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS- CUSTER CO PLAINS-PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-FALL RIVER-OGLALA LAKOTA- BENNETT-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS-SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS- HERMOSA FOOT HILLS-NORTHERN CAMPBELL-SOUTHERN CAMPBELL- WESTERN CROOK-WYOMING BLACK HILLS-WESTON-NORTHEASTERN CROOK- 1112 AM MDT MON JUN 13 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...THE BLACK HILLS OF SOUTH DAKOTA...AND NORTHEAST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS AS AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM CROSSES THE AREA. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...ESPECIALLY FROM 100 PM TO 900 PM. THE MAIN THREATS FROM ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHEAST WYOMING AND OVER FAR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA NEAR THE MONTANA BORDER. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OCCUR OVER SOUTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA...ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA ON TUESDAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES... OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/RAPIDCITY SDZ002-013-014-032-043-046-047-049-141300- PERKINS-NORTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-ZIEBACH-HAAKON-JACKSON-MELLETTE- TODD-TRIPP- 1112 AM MDT MON JUN 13 2016 /1212 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...AND SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AS AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM CROSSES THE AREA. A FEW STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS THIS EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS ACROSS SOUTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA ON TUESDAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES... OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/RAPIDCITY
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Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 13, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett, Jackson, Mellette, Todd | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 7:02 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Bennett, Jackson, Mellette, Todd | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 7:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Haakon, Jackson | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 7:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett, Todd | 82 min |
| Jun 14, 3:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Harding | 44 min |
| Jun 14, 4:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Harding | 66 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2016Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2016
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.